The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece ...

If Salamis had been lost ... who warned him against rushing into the strait and whom he calamitously ignored. Themistocles played on the sense of Greek nationality in a cunning fashion, and ...

However, as his vast armada sailed into the narrow straits between Salamis and the coast, they were met not by a fleet in disarray, but a well-ordered line of triremes, packed with Greek crewmen ...